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Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible



On 2020-01-08, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I consider natively to denote a device (in this case) that works without
>> the requirement of any software emulation to lead it to believe it is
>> functioning on a OS different from the host OS.
>
> That's a pretty odd interpretation: very few physical devices
> have any knowledge of the operating system that they are hooked
> to, and just want to be addresses according to a given protocol.

I guess it probably is a very strange interpretation, but I can find no
other interpretation of the word "natively" in computerese. If what
you're saying is true, I suppose the term should not be applied to a
hardware device at all (which was kind of my entire point from the very
start).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_(computing)




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